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CAT Equipment Autodocking, Noname Collab Bot, Silly Press Release
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Thomas Norris
November 23, 2022
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Tech of the Day: Artificial Intelligence (the smartest kid in the room)
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CATs get Zapped
So this is some interesting stuff. CAT, aka CATerpillar, aka the big gold colored bulldozers and heavy equipment, will soon be able to dock and automatically charge. Kind of like your little robot vacuum cleaner. This is crazy stuff! Imagine mining equipment, bulldozers, excavators that are being developed to charge themselves. Seems like mine operators will need fewer people to operate and increase output because they'll have less downtime.
Noname Collab Robot for Everyone
Who wants a robot? I do, I do! There's a Chinese outfit that just released a couple of new lines of collaborative robots. It's not a joke but a company called Dobot is targeting retail users of these bots. The Nova line of bots are designed for coffee shops, noodle restaurants, even physical therapists. This outfit claims that the bots are smaller and more capable than the current units on the market. Not sure on the price but if restaurants are buying them they'll need to be cheap to really go mainstream. I'm not sold that the foodservice and hospitality business is ready for these robots. It's still hard to get manufacturing and warehousing operations on board with technology and they have solid business cases for automation!
Tech of the Day: AI
Artificial intelligence is here to stay and you better be ready to hop on the train or get plowed.
Need a creative picture? AI can do it. Need a cool song? AI can do that too. Videos? Coming really damn soon.
Ok, what's AI? Artificial intelligence. The quick skinny on this tech is this. First, a program is trained by uploading all kinds of content, data, etc to create something resembling a bank of memories. Then someone can ask for a task to be completed and AI will dig into it's memories and piece together what the requestor is seeking. Freaking crazy shit here. This tech is getting really good, like super awesome kind of good. You know all those pics at the top of this newsletter? Yeah all made with AI. My favorite is still the pic with my request of a robot building a robot.
But there's a major controversy brewing here. AI has to be trained. And it gets trained by being shown human works, yeah like copyrighted, trademarked, intellectual property. Does this make the output of AI legal? Depends on who you ask.
Want your mind blown? Look up the Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs podcast interview. This was done through AI and it's creepily realistic!!
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A Press Release over 6 Robots?
You know what's not news? A project consisting of 6 mobile robots. Really? Who's idea was it to spend the time writing up the press release? Oh and if you read further you'll see the client purchased another 5 robots for. future use. So let me get this straight..an order worth maybe, just maybe $1.5M of robots (and that's a really high estimate for 11 MiR amrs) is news? Nah, I don't buy it. Add some zeros behind those numbers. There are lots of guys in the AGV and AMR space selling $3M+ dollar projects all day long, with some sites getting into the hundreds of units.
Taco Tuesday is among us! Go find yourself a juicy, meaty taco and gorge yourself.
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JOB POSTING OF THE DAY
Knapp is hiring for a PLC Field Engineer 1 that can be located at a customer site or out of their office in Georgia. Boy do I love Georgia peaches! They're looking for someone with a bachelor's degree and some basic plc knowledge. This gig will have pretty heavy travel working on prepping for installs, working onsite, and providing post installation support. Knapp has other opportunities too if you're techie and looking to get into the world of warehouse automation.
Have feedback or want to contribute a video, article or tacos? Maybe I'm interested maybe I'm not sure that I'm looking for it. If you have something constructive you can catch me on Twitter. @robotsrcoming or email us at [email protected]
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